Bioregional Knowledge Commons
* Report: Bioregional Knowledge Commons - A Meta Perspective. Federated Knowledge Infrastructure for Place-Based Organizing. Andrea Farias et al. r3.0 BIOREGIONAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS SERIES, May 2025.
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Description
"The bioregional movement is generating signicant knowledge across diverse communities worldwide, yet this valuable information remains scattered within specic groups or informal networks. This research was undertaken to explore opportunities and design considerations for developing a bioregional knowledge commons—a federated, community-governed infrastructure that connects knowledge and surfaces patterns across bioregional eforts, enabling practitioners to learn from and build upon each other's work more efectively.
Bioregional knowledge commons are envisioned as shared infrastructure that support learning,
coordination, and innovation across place-based communities. There are two key layers to
consider:
● Local Knowledge Commons: Stewarded by individual bioregions, focusing on context-specic ecological knowledge, cultural practices, and governance activities.
● Meta Knowledge Commons: A higher-level, connective layer that surfaces shared patterns, facilitates collaboration across bioregions, and supports the co-creation of tools, models, and methodologies.
This report centers on the meta level—exploring how coordinated, community-governed systems could strengthen knowledge lows across the bioregional movement."